The season would make its English television debut on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block and premiere on October 16, 2022. The season aired from May 2015 to April 2016. The episodes are directed by Hayato Date, and produced by Pierrot and TV Tokyo. There is also anime original episodes featuring characters inside their own Infinite Tsukuyomi dream and a side story revolving around Itachi Uchiha's life in the Leaf Village and his early days in the Akatsuki. The season focuses on Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno and Kakashi Hatake attempting to defeat Madara Uchiha and Zetsu, the ones behind the activation of the Infinite Tsukuyomi. The episodes for the twentieth season of the anime series Naruto: Shippuden are based on Part II for Masashi Kishimoto's manga series.
